MapMyIndia sues Ola Electric for ‘copying’ dataMapMyIndia, homegrown digital mapping services company, is taking Ola Electric to court for allegedly stealing its data to create its recen...
31 Jul, 2024, 10.21 AM IST
Use Ola Maps: Bhavish Aggarwal urges developers to exit Google mapsBhavish Aggarwal, founder of Ola, has urged developers to transition to Ola Maps in a bold move aimed at challenging Google maps dominance....
08 Jul, 2024, 08.37 PM IST
Ecommerce not clicking as it did post pandemic; Namma Yatri daily rides in fast laneAfter a pandemic-fuelled surge in online shopping, the industry is seeing moderate growth over the past few months. We have a detailed stor...
11 May, 2023, 08.02 AM IST
Namma Yatri on ONDC fast lane, nets 20% of daily Bengaluru rides from rivalsLaunched by SoftBank-backed Juspay, it is already undertaking an average of 30,000 auto rides a day, growing at 100% month on month, as per...
11 May, 2023, 06.00 AM IST
Google Street View lets users virtually walk a sacred place in Australia, sparks debateUluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, deeply sacred to the Anangu people, was closed to tourists in 2019.
06 Oct, 2020, 08.44 AM IST
Best-kept secret? Concerns raised by Australian authorities about Google show mapping risksGovernments and technology companies are mapping much of the Earth with satellite imagery, but in doing so, they may be putting indigenous ...
05 Oct, 2020, 01.06 PM IST
Covid-19 outbreak: Arogya Setu wristbands to monitor patients’ movementsAs the emphasis is on home quarantine, wristbands will help in remote monitoring, help health professionals know people’s temperature and s...
22 Apr, 2020, 06.54 AM IST
‘Digital Graffiti’ on Mapbox highlights the pitfalls of open dataThe problem stemmed from Mapbox, an eight-year-old startup that consolidates geographic data from hundreds of different sources to help com...
03 Sep, 2018, 10.22 AM IST
Pokemon craze sparks search for ships, alien creaturesThe runaway popularity of the app where users roam real world places in search of virtual pocket monsters has focused developers on the pot...
11 Aug, 2016, 10.28 AM IST
Geospatial bill: Bengaluru finds a route to save the map from governmentThe Centre for Internet and Society, Geo-Bangalore, Open Data Bangalore, DataMeet, DataKind and other entities are preparing to meet top of...
12 May, 2016, 03.47 AM IST
Rs 100 crore fine for faulty maps? Bizarre, say expertsInternet experts have criticized the proposed legislation for its vague wording and harsh penalties, and feel it could adversely affect doi...
07 May, 2016, 10.41 AM IST
Global venture-funded mapping startup Mapbox brings India’s landscapes onlineAs venture-funded startups from elsewhere are following their forebears in setting up shop here, one startup is challenging that dynamic.
26 Jun, 2015, 05.29 PM IST
Bengaluru gets first digital Kannada mapYoung mappers have created the first Kannada labelled digital maps of Bengaluru. Eventually,they plan to extend it to the whole of Karnatak...
10 Jun, 2015, 10.38 AM IST
How some Indian startups are offering tech support to bring normalcy in NepalAt a recent hackathon, `Hack for Nepal', 40 coders came up with technologydriven solutions for disaster management and survival.
03 Jun, 2015, 12.38 PM IST